Word: billiards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshman classes at Harvard never seem to change much," asserted Benjamin Laurie, familiar to Union billiard sharks as plain Ben, on his twentieth anniversary at the Union. "And I wish to say that they're the finest bunch of fellows a man can work with," he added...
Scarcely able to realize that he has been here so long, Laurie, who has been a billiard professional for twenty years, began to reminisce. He remembers the good old days when Willie Hoppe, world's champion billiard player for 16 years, played at the Union. In former days he used to play with all the great pros of his time--Hoppe, Schaefer, and the rest. Ben judged that the greatest Harvard player was Bert Knout '28, who averaged a run of about...
...Ninety per cent of the players prefer billiards," Ben claimed, "but they all start out wrong, in fact, everyone starts wrong. It is this early misunderstanding of the game that accounts for the fact that there are only 12 good billiard players in the country...
Twenty Freshmen billiard players are competing for a silver cup presented by the University...
...clock. A firm of young lawyers ready for the poorhouse ropes in a millionaire playboy overripe for the asylum. As the gilded nitwit is continuously prankish-he pours gin into milk bottles, steals peek-machines from penny arcades, drives his car up & down freight elevators, ties up girls on billiard tables-the firm of Lee, Russo & O'Rourke enjoys a continuous revenue, for a time. Then the screwball Tom (Eddie Nugent) makes off with Lawyer Lee's fiancee, and the riot...